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"Princesse des Etoiles" is back in the skies
Archive 2015
Tuesday, 04 August 2015
After 9 months of painstaking work N6797 is back in the air. Peter Houghton (an FAA qualified inspector for the PBY type), George, Vincent, Martial and others did an engine change, a complete repair and tightness of her wing tanks. This long and difficult job asked for a de-riveting of the top wing panels then to enter inside each tank to remove the coating, clean the whole tank box and apply a new coating. When this was over, new rivets and bolts were used to close the wing panels.
Doing this job meant numerous climbs to the top of the wing, five meters high over the ground and the working in the cold of the winter as in the heat wave of this early summer.
The first flight testing were satisfying and after everything was OK, the pilots have to renew their qualifications under Fred Owen’s supervision. Fred is an FFA instructor with many thousand flight hours on PBY.
Here you find some pictures of the repairs and the qualification flights.
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